Willis Crocker enlisted in 1914. He firstly was stationed on PartridgeIsland (at the mouth of Saint JohnHarbour). In the fall of 1914
his unit "The Ammunition Column" went to Fredericton where they lived in barracks until June, 1915.
He went overseas and was stationed in England with the horses until his unit
went to France. He was wounded at the Battle of Paschendaele
on October 29, 1917. An artillery shell exploded near him, but between him and the
explosion was an officer on a horse. The officer was killed but his presence there blocked Willis from the full effect
of the blast. He recuperated from his wounds in the south of England in a hospital at Boscombe. (Simultaneously,
his brother, Gordon, was recuperating from an amputation of his left leg in a hospital in London.) In the spring
of 1918 Willis had his right breast removed at a Canadian-run hospital in Basingstoke, England. In August, 1918, he
returned to Canada.

Submitted by Betty (Crocker) Lumsden

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